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Key Bush Gitmo Advisors Still Burrowed In At Pentagon

AP | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

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A senior judge who has not followed President Barack Obama's order to halt military trials at Guantanamo Bay is among Bush administration appointees s...

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Indiana Republicans To Obama: Don't Send Us Guantanamo Detainees

AP | Deanna Martin | Posted 03.06.2009 | Chicago

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Republican state legislators are working on a resolution they hope could keep Guantanamo Bay inmates from being moved to the federal prison in Terre H...

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An Open Letter To Jeh Johnson/General Counsel, Department of Defense

H. Candace Gorman | Posted 03.05.2009 | World

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H. Candace Gorman

As the rest of the world is standing by waiting to see us take responsibility for Gitmo, we should release the Uighur detainees into the United States and grant them provisional asylum.

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Lawmakers: Send Guantanamo Detainees Anywhere But My State

AP | SUZANNE GAMBOA | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Even before President Barack Obama moved to close the infamous Guantanamo Bay lockup, several communities were engaged in a furious...

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Guantanamo Issue Threatens To Split EU

The Guardian | Peter Walker, Mark Tran | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

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EU countries could be willing to help the US close down Guantánamo Bay by taking in released detainees despite the doubts of some member states, the ...

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Gitmo War Court: Two Accused Of Orchestrating 9/11 Attacks Offer Confessions

AP | BEN FOX | Posted 02.19.2009 | World

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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Two alleged orchestrators of the 2001 attacks on America casually declared their guilt on Monday in a messy an...

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Australia May Take Guantanamo Detainees

Bloomberg | Gemma Daley | Posted 01.27.2009 | World

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Australia may accept detainees from the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, subject to legal criteria and their individual cases, acting Prime Minister Jul...

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Closing Guantanamo: France Wants Common EU Policy On Detainees

Deutsche Welle | Posted 01.26.2009 | World

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The French Foreign Ministry called for a common European Union policy Friday, Dec. 26, on how to deal with prisoners currently held in the US prison i...

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Portugal Foreign Minister: European Union Should Accept Gitmo Detainees

Guardian.co.uk | Matthew Weaver and Agencies | Posted 01.11.2009 | World

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European countries should offer asylum to former terrorist suspects released from Guantánamo Bay, Portugal's foreign minister said today. In a...

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Chinese Guantanamo Detainees Turned Down For Immediate Release By Appeals Court

Posted 11.20.2008 | Home

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WASHINGTON - A divided federal appeals court on Monday refused to allow the immediate release into the U.S. of 17 Turkic Muslims being held at Guantan...

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Guantanamo Prisoners Reportedly Not Told Of Rights

AP | MIKE MELIA | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — U.S. military prosecutors on Wednesday played an interrogation video that shows a driver for Osama bin Laden d...

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Gitmo Trial To Put Gitmo Trials On Trial At Gitmo

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics

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The legal reasoning for denying this "last-minute plea deal" was based solely on the fact that preparations for the trial had been made? Sorry, but the show must go on?

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Gitmo Interrogation Video Released For First Time

AP | CHARMAINE NORONHA | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

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TORONTO — A 16-year-old captured in Afghanistan and held at Guantanamo Bay sobs during his questioning, holding up his wounded arms and begging ...

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Gitmo Detainee Ordered Released, But His Lawyer Is Not Allowed To Tell Him

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

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On June 12, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Boumediene v. Bush that those detained as enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay had the rights of habe...

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Guantanamo Dentention Like Being In "Supermax" Prison: Human Rights Watch

Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

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Guantanamo Detainees Allege Being Injected With Drugs To Coerce Confessions

Washington Post | Joby Warrick | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

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Adel al-Nusairi remembers his first six months at Guantanamo Bay as this: hours and hours of questions, but first, a needle. "I'd fall asleep" after ...

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U.S. Says Some Guantanamo Prisoners Can Phone Home

Reuters | Jane Sutton | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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The U.S. military has agreed to let some prisoners detained in President George W. Bush's war on terrorism and held for years at the Guantanamo naval ...

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Gitmo Interrogator Describes Tactics

AP | ANDREW O. SELSKY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Interrogators got intelligence from detainees that helped U.S. troops in Afghanistan attack Taliban fighters l...

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Dems Try to Pre-Empt State of the Union

AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats, trying to have the first word on President Bush's State of the Union speech, challenged him Friday to reno...

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Detainee Lawyer Claims Has CIA Pictures of Guantanamo Torture

The Independent | Robert Verkaik | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Lawyers for a British resident who the US government refuses to release from Guantanamo Bay have identified the existence of photographs taken by CIA ...

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Gitmo Attorney: Mess to Last "For Years to Come"

Jon Wiener | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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Erwin Chemerinsky, lawyer for Gitmo detainee Salem Gherebi, said in an interview yesterday justice for those being held at Guantanamo still years off, even if the Supreme Court rules in their favor.

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